Physical Metallurgy

David E. Laughlin is the ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1974. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CMU.He is the Principal Editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions family of journals of ASM International and TMS. His research has centered on the investigation of the structure of materials by means of transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. He has studied various diffusional phase transformations by detailed analysis of their micro-structure as well as electron diffraction patterns. For the past 25 years he has focused on the investigation of the magnetic properties and microstructure of soft magnets (HITPERM), hard magnets (FePt and CoPt) and magnetic thin films for recording media. He co-chairs the Data Storage Systems Center Magnetic Recording Group. He has taught courses on physical metallurgy, electron microscopy, diffraction techniques, thermodynamics, crystallography, magnetic materials and phase transformations. He is a director of both the X-ray Central Facility and the Electron Optics Central Facility of the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University. He has more than 400 technical publications in the field of phase transformations, physical metallurgy and magnetic materials, and has edited or co-edited eight books and has ten U.S. Patents in the field of magnetic recording. He was elected as an Honorary member of the AIME and is a Fellow of ASM and TMS. Kazuhiro Hono is NIMS Fellow, Director of Magnetic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

• 1. Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds2. Electron Theory of Complex Metallic Alloys3. Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams4. Metallic Glasses5. Diffusion in Metals and Alloys6. Defects in Metals7. Solidification8. Diffusional Phase Transformations in the Solid State9. Phase Transformations: Nondiffusive10. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys 107311. Orientation Mapping12. Transmission Electron Microscopy for Physical Metallurgists13. X-ray and Neutron Scattering14. Structure, Composition and Energy of Solid-Solid Interfaces15. Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscopy16. Dislocations17. Plastic Deformation of Metals and Alloys 168118. Fatigue of Metals 176519. Magnetic Properties of Metals and Alloys 188120. Physical Metallurgy of Light Alloys 200921. Physical Metallurgy of Steels 215722. Physical Metallurgy of the Nickel-Based Superalloys 221523. Recovery and Recrystallization: Phenomena, Physics, Models, Simulation 229124. Porous Metals 239925. Hydrogen in Metals 259726. Physical Metallurgy of Nanocrystalline Metals 270727. Computational Metallurgy 2807